{"id":413,"date":"2008-05-07T22:18:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T03:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wednesday-night-notes\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:18:09","slug":"wednesday-night-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wednesday-night-notes-413\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Night Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t really mean much on the grand scheme of things from a betting perspective, but one of my favorite things in baseball happened tonight &#8211; Minnesota&#8217;s Carlos Gomez hit for the cycle. He did it in what was an epic 13-1 beatdown of the White Sox by Minnesota. The usually solid Mark Buehrle got the start for Chicago, but it didn&#8217;t go well. After five decent innings the wheels fell off in the sixth when he allowed five earned runs. That was much better than Ehren Wassermann was in relief &#8211; he allowed five earned runs and only recorded one out. This is more of the same for the White Sox recently &#8211; they have on win in their last eight. Buehrle and his boys were favored tonight, though you wouldn&#8217;t guess it by the final score.<\/li>\n<li>I like it any time the Yankees lose, but I especially liked it tonight because it was the first loss for ace Chien-Ming Wang. He allowed three runs in seven innings against Cleveland, but that was too many. Cliff Lee started for the Indians, and he was magical &#8211; seven strikeouts with no runs or walks in seven innings. Lee has been one of the truly great stories of the season so far. He&#8217;s mostly a journeyman type, though he was 18-5 in 2005. This year he is 6-0 in his six starts, and his ERA is a ridiculous 0.81. His strikeout to walk ratio is alright, too &#8211; 39\/2. He&#8217;s far from the biggest name in the league, but if the Cy Young was awarded today he would be a shoo-in. The best part tonight was that he was up against Wang and the Yankees, so Lee went off as +131 underdog despite being essentially unhittable all year. That&#8217;s a nice bargain.<\/li>\n<li>There have been eight games in the second round of the NBA playoffs so far. The home team has won all eight. A monkey could make money on that. If only it were always so easy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t really mean much on the grand scheme of things from a betting perspective, but one of my favorite things in baseball happened tonight &#8211; Minnesota&#8217;s Carlos Gomez hit for the cycle. He did it in what was an epic 13-1 beatdown of the White Sox by Minnesota. The usually solid Mark Buehrle got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[103,102,25,83],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-handicapping","tag-carlos-gomez","tag-cliff-lee","tag-mlb","tag-nba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}